I recently went to Portland to visit a friend and Powell's blew my mind. One of the best bookstores I have ever been to.

YES - local libraries were awesome. I got a mini-disk player (yuck) when they came out and would copy Cds i liked from the library that way. The best thing for me was they always had a huge Jazz collection which, when I was 14, I knew little about. I got to discover Mingus, Sun Ra, Oscar Peterson and all the other…

I can see what you mean, but think it really depends on the store - I think where book and record shops are going now is trying to make a space that people want to be and browse - having chairs to sit in, having coffee shops attached etc. Those shops that I would go to rather than search online are usually those I…

London has some similarly wonderful places - there is a bookstore I love that has everything organised by country so that, for example, you go to the Russian section and there will be books on Russia and books written by Russian authors. I always end up finding things I have never heard of, which does, as you say,…

there is a video of him doing it on Youtube that is just astonishing.

badom be badum be, badom be badum be, badom be badum be badim be badom be. Badom be badum be, badom be badum be..bi bi bi bi ba dum bow…

it is this:

IIBS
Funkiest bass intro ever?

I think what makes it so special is that you have all of the power of the improvisation, and the raw emotion, as well as the composed, planned, detailed writing of Mingus which is really trying to be/do something. Plus it just sounds frickin awesome.

There is a great book on Dolphy, which is worth tracking down. It is his bass clarinet playing that consistently floors me. Live at the Five Spot is pretty amazing. I love that he used to record bird song, slow it down, and work out how to play it…

OMG RLY? LOLZ

keeping with a Radiohead example
I remember getting OK Computer the day it came out, as I loved the band, getting home after school (I was about 15), lying down on my bed to listen to it, and thinking WTF? Not that I did not like it - I had just never heard songs like that, or sounds like that before. It confused me.…

maybe a little cliche but
in Paradisum from Faure's Requiem. Even though I am an atheist jew, that is what I want the afterlife to be like. Whatever the feeling is that music creates in me, that would be what I wanted my last moments to feel like…

I do…I guess it a sign of his youth when he set up the account, and that teenage boy 'humour'….

I have to agree with you
I was 15 and totally fell in love with:
1)OK Computer;
2)Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space (I still have that weird giant pill case it came in);
3)Homogenic;
4)Either/Or;
5)Life after death by B.I.G;
6)Dig your own hole;
7)Baduizm;
8)Dots and Loops; and
9)Come to Daddy.

I loved the E.Ps and was excited by the album, but can't get past the singing…I am not a huge fan of his voice and wish he messed with it even more. Maybe it will grow on me…

1) It is factually wrong to state the transition is 'almost pure silence' for the primary reason that there is no such thing as 'almost pure' silence. There is sound or there is not.
2) the relationship between music and the silence surrounding it is subtle and complex and has been explicitly explored by numerous…

Pretty much agree with you there. My only problem with Radiohead now is that I never listen to their whole albums anymore - Amensiac has Pyramid Song on, for instance, which is high in my top 10 things they have ever done, as well as many songs I can no longer really be bothered to listen to. You pick, say, 20 songs…

codex into give up the ghost
just beautiful. As a whole album though, I agree with placing it around the B mark. They are wearing their influences a little too plainly (Burial, James Blake etc) but still manage to sound uniquely Radiohead. I think what does continue to make them special as a band is that they have…

Yeah - I have been living in China for the past 6 months which has really put a dampner on my downloading. Although I found this on hotfile as a .rar within a few hours of it coming out. If I like, I buy. Although, with a band as huge and wealthy as Radiohead, I probably wont…